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Making Money on Facebook?

Gray MacKenzie — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:02:17 +0000

Reading through the Top 20 Young Internet Entrepreneurs Under 21, the work of Harrison Gevirtz stands out. His website, www.CPAShare.com is a blog which shares the 17 year old’s online and offline entrepreneurial experiences. I was intrigued by a post titled How to make money on Facebook with Local Ads. Harrison walks through the steps [...]

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YouTube for Marketing Research?

Gray MacKenzie — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:41:35 +0000

I think so…check out the video below and feel free to comment with thoughts. Posts: Youtube Helping Families Talk to Each Other Youtube cat star becomes offline star A Youtube Economy YouTube Adds Official Music Service YouTube Roundup: Our thoughts on YouTube YouTube for Marketing Research? is a post from: Internet Entrepreneurship

Social Media about Social Media… and Ice Cream!!

listms1 — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:35:03 +0000

Social media is the way to go these days if you want to reach a larger target market for less money, and who doesn’t want that? Web features such as “Rate this product” and “Comment on this product” tell people a lot more about a product than a companies own biased ads, and people seem [...]

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Wait, YouTube is a marketing tool?

Gray MacKenzie — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:34:21 +0000

“I thought YouTube was a place where people with too much time on their hands could show off their home video skills?” This sentiment may be largely true, but the advertising artists who successfully market via YouTube are demonstrating that the world’s largest video sharing website can enhance branding and boost corporate performance. But marketing [...]

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Youtube cat star becomes offline star

Hayrowkitty — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:09:32 +0000

A cat called “Maru” quickly became popular when the owner posted video of him trying to slide into the beer box. This silly and funny cat is now on TV commercial in Japan, mainly broadcasting on metro train TV in Tokyo. UQ Communications Inc. is a company that found this video to use for its commercial. [...]

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Main Street Online: Hyper-Local Marketing

pombojm1 — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:53:57 +0000

There is one area of online advertising that remains untapped: small-town and local businesses. A casual walk down the main street of many towns will reveal a variety of small antique, pizza, coffee, and other eccentric shops. Amongst the variety of stores in a small downtown there is the common factor that they lack an online [...]

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Fighting Inefficiency of Online Ads

pombojm1 — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:36:44 +0000

As more and more money is poured into Internet ventures, online ads remain the unsolvable Rubik cube of advertising and marketing. Online advertisements, the lifeblood for many online firms, is an inefficient system. As reported in Businessweek, a little over 1 in 1,000 people click on banner ads. More complex than simply not having people [...]

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A Limitation of Viral and Social Media Marketing

pombojm1 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:12:16 +0000

Starbucks new instant coffee, Via, is a case study in the limitations of viral and social media marketing.

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Ad Tracking Hurts Online Businesses

GccBilly — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:48:44 +0000

Internet users are now used to getting many online services for free, like facebook, or online dictionaries, or just about any information that someone could want. These services are free to the user because of online advertising. Advertising is used ubiquitously off of the internet to reduce cost to the consumer and increase profitability for the business. Some [...]

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Facebook Privacy Policy Reversal

pombojm1 — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:14:46 +0000

Riding a wave of controversy, Facebooks’ recent change to content rights has been reversed. Facebook had planned to own rights to all the content posted by the vastly growing user base. Catching wind of this were disgruntled users with a prerogative for claiming their privacy rights. The result was a unified body of Facebook users collaborating [...]

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